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president obama and mitt romney spent the day preparing for their first debate tomorrow night. and republican leaders of the house oversight committee charged that the state department ignored pleas for greater security in benghazi, libya, before the u.s. ambassador was killed there. what can middle, high school and college students learn from watching the upcoming presidential debates? kwame holman introduces some special debate teaching tools. >> holman: working with educators around the country, newshour extra, our site for students and teachers, has put together resources to help young viewers learn about the history and evolution of debates, and feel more connected to the democratic process. find those links on the rundown. and headhunter nick corcodilos answers your job search questions, including how to approach a full career change. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll be joined by mark shields and david brooks for our debate preview. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woo
president obama and mitt romney spent the day preparing for their first debate tomorrow night. and republican leaders of the house oversight committee charged that the state department ignored pleas for greater security in benghazi, libya, before the u.s. ambassador was killed there. what can middle, high school and college students learn from watching the upcoming presidential debates? kwame holman introduces some special debate teaching tools. >> holman: working with educators around...
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on the newshour tonight: new revelations detail what the obama administration knew of russian meddling in the presidential election, and the internal debate about how to punish president putin. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff, reporting from colorado at the aspen institute's spotlight health conference. as congress fights over replacing obamacare, we tackle the controversy over drug pricing with stephen ubl, head of pharma, the nation's largest pharmaceutical trade association. >> we think, as an industry, the pricing model needs to evolve. we need to move away from paying for volume, to paying for the value of care. >> sreenivasan: and, uniting a community through health. how one muslim-based group is bringing a chicago neighborhood together by focusing on its most basic needs. >> how you going to change anything in your neighborhood, if you really can't start with the place that really sustains the neighborhood? and that's the food, right? >> woodruff: and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight
on the newshour tonight: new revelations detail what the obama administration knew of russian meddling in the presidential election, and the internal debate about how to punish president putin. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff, reporting from colorado at the aspen institute's spotlight health conference. as congress fights over replacing obamacare, we tackle the controversy over drug pricing with stephen ubl, head of pharma, the nation's largest pharmaceutical trade association....
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at the outset of the obama administration when obama was dismantling this program about whether it worked. i mean, there were always sort of different categories of debate about this program -- was it moral, legal, and a question of was it effective. a lot of defenders of the program said after 9/11 we didn't have a choice but to take extreme measures, and it worked, saved lives and prevented attacks. so senator feinstein, the chairman of the intelligence committee, made it a first job to zero in on the question, is it true? did it work? what did the agency's own records say about that? >> reporter:. >> woodruff: so what would you say the main findings are here? i know there's a lot to cover, but what would you single out? >> i think there are to. one is they see very little evidence the enhanced techniques -- water boarding, sleep deprivation, things like that -- delivered any significant intelligence in the aftermath of 9/11. in fact, much of the best intelligence from prisoners who were subjected to these techniques came before that ever happened, in other words when they were initiall
at the outset of the obama administration when obama was dismantling this program about whether it worked. i mean, there were always sort of different categories of debate about this program -- was it moral, legal, and a question of was it effective. a lot of defenders of the program said after 9/11 we didn't have a choice but to take extreme measures, and it worked, saved lives and prevented attacks. so senator feinstein, the chairman of the intelligence committee, made it a first job to zero...
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barack obama or george w. bush. and i think ultimately the obama white house will be stuck running a fairly negative campaign basically arguing that who ever the republican nominee is, whether it's mitt romney, rick perry or somebody else, they're just a continuation of the bush administration, and if you look at the polls and more americans still blame bush for the current economic woes than blame obama, and i think that's going to be the focus of the white house's strategy. >> lehrer: how does that fit into the new poll, yesterday's poll that was out today, cbs "new york times" poll about the low opinion that the american people have of the congress? >> congress as somebody once see serves two purposes, it makes the united nations look efficient by contrast and it makes the president's job rating look good. but we've been through three straight elections in a row, jim, that have repealed one of the great maxims of american politics. all politics is local. all politics is not local. and it is local until it's natio
barack obama or george w. bush. and i think ultimately the obama white house will be stuck running a fairly negative campaign basically arguing that who ever the republican nominee is, whether it's mitt romney, rick perry or somebody else, they're just a continuation of the bush administration, and if you look at the polls and more americans still blame bush for the current economic woes than blame obama, and i think that's going to be the focus of the white house's strategy. >> lehrer:...
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it a very important set of issues and we need a political debate on these questions. i think the problem with obama's strategy right now is you have got the negative part, the critique of the republican. what he doesn't have is his own administration's plan for dealing with our long-term debt problem, tim geithner, treasury secretary said so, on capitol hill. and until he fills that in, i think that there is a hole in his strategy. >> woodruff: you see it that way? >> yeah, i think that the president want its this-- he would love to have this be about budgets and deficits and tax cuts. what you don't want is the economy with bad economic news to be the center piece. i think governor romney is paying a price for the betterness of the fight to win this nomination. he has taken positions, for example, on immigration. he got to the right of both rick perry who was a formidable threat, and newt gingrich who emerged as a threat, by taking a more right leaning position, more stridently anti-immigrant. promised to veto the dream act. he did the same thing with rick santorum o
it a very important set of issues and we need a political debate on these questions. i think the problem with obama's strategy right now is you have got the negative part, the critique of the republican. what he doesn't have is his own administration's plan for dealing with our long-term debt problem, tim geithner, treasury secretary said so, on capitol hill. and until he fills that in, i think that there is a hole in his strategy. >> woodruff: you see it that way? >> yeah, i think...
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president obama rejected the keystone x.l. oil pipeline proposal today, ending a protracted debate and handing a big victory to environmentalists. the controversial pipeline would have permitted oil from canada's tar sands to flow to u.s. gulf coast refineries. the president said the project would have undermined american efforts to secure a global climate change deal. we'll take a closer look at the impact of his decision, right after the news summary. the supreme court agreed today to hear a fourth case challenging president obama's affordable care act. this time, the court will decide whether religious-affiliated institutions like universities and hospitals should be free from playing any role in providing employees contraceptive coverage. the president's health care overhaul currently mandates that those institutions request exemption from insurers. white house spokesman josh earnest was confident that they would win the legal challenge. >> the policy that we have in place appropriately balances the need for millions of am
president obama rejected the keystone x.l. oil pipeline proposal today, ending a protracted debate and handing a big victory to environmentalists. the controversial pipeline would have permitted oil from canada's tar sands to flow to u.s. gulf coast refineries. the president said the project would have undermined american efforts to secure a global climate change deal. we'll take a closer look at the impact of his decision, right after the news summary. the supreme court agreed today to hear a...
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resisted but new secretary price might not. >> old debate over well fair and work, republicans on one side and democrats on the other. these are major things we've touched on, but they barely describe the reach of this agency. can you talk about the profound abilities or the profound area that now secretary price oversees? >> people forget how big the department of health and human services is. the budget over $1 trillion. it oversees not just medicare, and medicaid, but the national institutes of health, the indian health service -- it touches almost one out of every two americans. it is a wide, sprawling agenty. the secretary has significant power to interpret how laws are implemented. >> desjardins: you have been covering healthcare 30 years. how important can this be in terms of american healthcare? >> we'll see. not exactly which way the secretary will go. from his congressional career, he's been conservative, would like to remake medicare and medicaid and repeal the affordable care act. that's not exactly what president trump ran on. he said in his confirmation hearings he'll do
resisted but new secretary price might not. >> old debate over well fair and work, republicans on one side and democrats on the other. these are major things we've touched on, but they barely describe the reach of this agency. can you talk about the profound abilities or the profound area that now secretary price oversees? >> people forget how big the department of health and human services is. the budget over $1 trillion. it oversees not just medicare, and medicaid, but the...